Trump's Oligarchs And Their Assault On Social Security w/ Alex Lawson | MR Live - 1/7/25

[@alin81-82]

Suckerberg is so spineless. All social media should be made public utilities.

[@dawnalawrence6584]

What about people like me who worked in Long Term Health Care for 40 years- weekends. holidays, different shifts whose Social Security checks are just above the "poverty line" but NOT enough for a decent standard of living?! WE get "left out in the cold" as USUAL. If I had my life to live over I would NEVER work in health care!

[@Roadsareforpeople]

Alex Lawson was a fantastic guest. I enjoyed listening to his perspective.

[@moodyblues108]

I'm on SS disability and have been for several years. If I wasn't disabled I wouldn't be able to survive.. If you are as poor as me you can learn to live off nothing, thank goodness I have a housing subsidy and food stamps. It's so effed up I live in California so I have excellent health care.. the closest to univeral care one can have but it is so unfair because I can't even own anything or make any money at all to try and supplement the VERY low monthly I get. I feel so sorry for those who work so hard and they have to look forward to poverty existence. I am terrified of Trump and his cronies.

[@DavidCDrake]

Thanks for all the excellent, informative shows!

[@TheStubLord]

rest in power brother michael, stub is rarely first, left is best

[@Philbert-s2c]

Stub is best.

[@JazzMaven]

Great work, Alex!

[@tc1295]

starts for social security 36:25

[@volk4523]

Thanks for timecode, and I saw your other comments mentioning young disabled people. Thanks for the recognition, it's not talked about enough.

[@Garnovich]

4:16 starts at

[@manita2653]

Thank you for bringing Alex Lawson to help us understand the workings of the Social Security Bill just signed by President Biden! Lots to learn and think about. I will be sharing info with my son and other family members and friends. You all are a blessing.

[@Silverfang447]

Left is best, comrades! Thanks for the show! ❤ Excellent guest and discussion! 👍

[@UberOcelot]

It's so odd how the people that would benefit the most from social progressive politics, choose to rally around the flag and bigotry

[@sscoutistaken]

RIP Bozo, LePen goes down!

[@fredhesseltine1471]

John Fettermansion I said that one! Appreciate your show guys

Yes, Sam, we have an oligarchic fascism. Oligarchy connotes the financial advantage for the oligarchy, and fascism stands for the antidemocratic political side of the power flow. We have effectively lost the democracy, if we ever really had it.

[@Indigo-bunting858]

Keep truth on point! Don’t let anything channel it away 👏✌️

[@amandarobinson5609]

If they cut social security and Medicare, are they also going to increase the rate that comes out of our paychecks that goes towards them?

[@joanmaurer4201]

I doubt they can make employees contribute anymore.

[@amandarobinson5609]

@joanmaurer4201 I agree. I did look it up and it's 6.2% each from employee and employer, taxable to $168,600 for 2024. 12.4% if self employed.

[@malhusk]

In Australia we get 11.5% for our super (retirement fund).. going to 12% of weekly wage…

[@davidguerrero1636]

the ads are my favorite part of the show sometimes

[@roberthussey595]

No one censors more than Google -

[@yorygibson-rc1lw]

Google is the worst if look at their war arm of Google it decusting

[@TeeMilzz]

Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO)

[@corigram]

YT's algorithms now simply don't allow comments to post. There is no need for checkers if comments aren't posted.

[@never2yield20]

Well they won't eliminate (or reduce) the payroll tax, but they will redirect it towards privately controlled investment funds, like 401Ks etc. Considerably more risk, but huge benefit to Wall-Street. The whole system needs adjustment. Because eventually robots or AI won't be paying the payroll tax, and their employers won't be paying the match either.

[@WalterdasTrevas]

Those who analyzed the posts were biased, but the users who will now decide if the post is offensive, especially the bots, are not biased. It seems legit.

[@Blubirdmoon111]

🎉🎉SAM,SOCIAL SECURITY DOES NOT ❤CURRENTLY KEEP us out of POVERTY! Many of we elders only get $1,000 Socsec a month. Also disabled people, we are all still in poverty !

[@frank-u2v]

I'm a privacy advocate and fan of your show. You are part of the problem if you aren't on a platform that doesn't track your "audience" (product). Email me back if you actually care about the root of the problem.

[@TheDreamtimezzz]

Is there anyone under the age of 60 that uses Facebook? 🤔. Edit - they can’t find money for social security, bit had no trouble finding 100 of billions to launder money through wars.

[@13cozzmo]

The most annoying people you went to high school with

[@joanmaurer4201]

I'm almost 70, and I don't know how to remove my profile.

[@Philbert-s2c]

I'm 59 but that's done in a month so probably not...

[@-suphur]

FetterManchin Good one, stealing that.

[@tc1295]

How are they going to pay for the extra social security for people if they’re not taxing billionaires….? 👀💀

[@Blubirdmoon111]

It will just make the SSA fund run out faster, I heard. Wow DEmS! Thanks for not much! They could have also RAISED THE CAP & VOILA ALL SOC SEC WOULD BE FINE & raised up also for everyone , but they now only raised it for those who already have another pension ! Nothing for the rest of us bottom feeders who make only$1,000 due to our health ailment and elder statsus…

[@shorterrecording]

I got the 8

[@stevereber3358]

Ruhr industrialists

[@jonrwert]

around 23:00, "brainwash" is not too strong a word.

[@-carlos-danger1891]

You can always tell serious journalism by the way they attack the fasions of their subjects.

[@TheGreatAtario]

You can always tell the serious media consumers by the way they can't differentiate journalism from commentary

[@mrp932]

Sadly trump is going to take credit for the social security win! 🤬

[@sclark80209]

The entire framing of the Social Security discussion is wrong. I know the current law says that payroll tax funds the trust fund, the trust fund pays the benefits, and there's a cap on the payroll tax. I get it. But Congress can change that law, lower the retirement age, increase benefits, they can even kill the tax, and still pay every benefit in perpetuity. Why? Because taxes don't fund spending. The federal government is the exclusive creator of US dollars. The dollars used for the trust fund that pays the benefit ultimately originate with the US federal government. Please focus your efforts on getting Congress to increase benefits and lower the retirement age without a tax hike. Your only resistance is with the tax, not with the benefit.

[@cerieti]

Have to disagree sam, They simply cant hire all humans to do this because they have grown too large. Doesnt mean they couldnt hire some and have ahybrid system. But anyone who knows the industry will tell u the same... having all humans isnt possible.

[@mmoreno7137]

Maybe they can do the math and mess with the other side. Like when people talk about how unfair it is that Billionaires pay more money than other people then they can propose "Everybody pays on 50% of their income that sounds fair" and it would keep the fund solvent with the percentage they come up with. :P They weaponize math in the other direction so we should too.

[@volk4523]

We honestly should be paying about 60-70% income tax in order to fund public services. Granted, the military budget should be halved, and we should only be allowed at maximum 60K-80K personnel at any given time. We have the money to fund things without extra taxes, but the extra taxes would up the game of the effects of those institutions if we did it.

[@doktortutankamazon31]

Bezos didn't stop that cartoon...The editors took it upon themselves to pull that cartoon. Until I see proof that is the story.

[@Philbert-s2c]

They pulled it because they knew it's what he would have wanted. This is how capitalism works. You put in the people you know will kiss your ass.

[@TheGreatAtario]

Funny how they just so happened to kill a cartoon for the first and only time in the cartoonist's 20+ year career with the paper when it mocked the oligarch owner. What a coïncidence!

[@doktortutankamazon31]

@@TheGreatAtario Yup. The boss doesn't even need to weigh in. Poor simpleton thinks he watches every story and then makes his management staff act ? He can't be bothered with tripe. He has management to do the work while he relaxes on his yacht. You are not very smart but are probably nice, though.

[@TheGreatAtario]

@@doktortutankamazon31 Well, the important thing is that you found a way to excuse it

[@richardc9634]

The Electoral College has confirmed Donald Trump as president-elect. Next time run your best candidate and lose the DEI or get use to saying President Vance in 2028

[@TheGreatAtario]

Would've been easier to just say you hate brown people